Remember when Trump and Kim Jong-un “fell in love” with “beautiful letters”?  Remember when Trump ignored everyone who knew what they were talking about and boasted that he was going to do a great deal, get Kim to shut down his nuclear program and start building beachfront hotels?  Remember when Trumpists told the rest of us that Trump was a genius, “unconventional”, and getting more done than any president in US history?

I do.  And the result of Trump’s go it alone strategy and unilateral disarmament of US forces in South Korea is complete disaster.  Kim’s nuclear program is stronger than ever, and John Bolton is now saying that the WH may have to actually admit that Trump miscalculated his ability to charm murderous dictators.  In an interview with Axios last week, Bolton was critical of Trump’s decision to go it alone and unconditionally meet with Kim.  He and other officials are saying that the US will likely have to return to it’s normal policy of strict sanctions and even intercepting ships illegally shipping fuels to North Korea.

At some point you’d think that Republicans would begin getting the message that Trump is nothing but a boastful buffoon who doesn’t have the slightest clue what he’s doing.  And they need to do that sooner rather than later.

Trump’s a lunatic being manipulated by the bad guys in the WH, and normal people understand that.  Mike Pence?  He’s a mindless moron, also being manipulated by the bad guys in the WH (when he pulls his nose out of Trump’s…uh, never mind).  This week, both Trump and Pence went on national teevee and talked about how North Korea could end up like Libya if Kim Jong Un didn’t play ball with the US.  Keep in mind that when they say that, they’re talking about Muammar Gaddafi being chased down and murdered in a not very nice way by rebels when his government collapsed after he gave up his nuclear weapons.  So to aid Trump and Pence in their preparation for North Korea summit talks, I’ve developed a handy checklist:

• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.
• Don’t bring up Libya.

Hope that helps.

So now we have to worry about North Korea nukes AND Republican nukes.

One of those arsenals is guided by a chubby immature guy with a weird haircut who is not fully grounded in reality, and the other is guided by Kim Jong-Un.

Democrats have locked in the votes to block Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, meaning Republicans will have to take the extreme step of using the so-called “nuclear option” to blow up Senate rules to confirm him.

Personally, I do not believe that a President elected through Putin deserves a supreme court nomination.  But, like their leader, Senate Republicans can dish it out but they sure can’t take it.